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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"female children"”.
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Health-Related Quality of Life in Female Children with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: A Mixed Methods Study
… the evaluation of health outcomes. However, in children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), HRQOL is a long-neglected subject. Previous research in individuals with CAH typically focused on medical treatment and outcomes, which suggested that HRQOL is influenced by personal factors such …
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Identity Creation and Power Acquisition Through Language use in Preadolescent and Adolescent Girls
… (Bucholtz, 1999). Specifically, it examines how female children participating in 4-H club activities are using language to build individual and group identities; how individual and group identity creation and recreation is managed through language use; how stances of power and hierarchies are …
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Patterns of Physical Activity Participation, Sources of Social Support and Friendship Dynamics among Children with Low Vision
… of social support and friendship dynamics among children with low vision. Twenty-four male and female children between the ages of 8 and 14 years with low vision (20/70 to 20/400) completed a questionnaire related to their participation in physical activity. Results indicate that the children are …
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A Study of Relationships Between Family Members Using Familial Correlations
… analysis of familial correlations where male and female children of the same family can have different correlations in the unequal family size case is presented. First, three likelihood based tests, namely the likelihood ratio test, Rao score test, and Wald test, and two more asymptotic tests …
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Examining parenting outcomes of childhood sexual abuse survivors utilizing observation and self-report methods.
… poorer limit-setting skills (h² = .21) with male children compared to female children, but did not self-report these differences. Although not statistically significant, small but potentially meaningful effect sizes were found when the self-reports of CSA mothers were compared to their observed …
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History of Immigrant Female Students in Chicago Public Schools, 1900--1950
… and school response. The study group is female students primarily from Chicago's major immigrant communities: Irish, Jewish, Italian, and Polish. Previous histories on immigrant education used ethnic differences to explain disparities in educational attainment among Irish, Italian, …
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America's Lollipop Licking Tease: The Eroticization of the Female Child in 1930s Film
This dissertation examines the eroticization of female children in film during the 1930s as a mechanism for concealing troubling realities of the Great Depression in the United States. The repressed sexuality embedded in the plots of Post Hays Code movies featuring Shirley Temple and characters …
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Examining The Interaction Between Parent Gender And Child Sex On Stress And Coping For Parents Of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Parents of children with autism experience elevated stress, but coping strategies are used to manage stressors. Previous research in these areas uses measures not normed for this population with low representation of fathers, and it is unclear whether child sex and parent gender interact to impact …
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Analysis of the Nigerian Supreme Court's constitutional duty regarding women's inheritance right under customary law
… the plaintiff (widow of the deceased and her female children) from the property of the deceased because she had no male child. He claimed that based on their customary law female children are excluded from inheriting property. The Supreme Court then invalidated this customary law of male …
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The Features of Single-fathers in Father-daughter Relationships in Shakespear's King Lear, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest
… ‘murderous’ in their relationships with their children, particularly their female children. Through a close reading of father-daughter relationships in Shakespeare’s King Lear, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest,’ this paper will investigate the existence of good male single parents: those …
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THE INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL DISABILITY ON CHILDREN: AN EXPLORATORY INVESTIGATION OF THE ADULT CHILDREN OF SPINAL CORD INJURED FATHERS
… on the development and adjustment of their children. There is little empirically based information about the influence of physical characteristics of parents on children, but speculative articles have described many deleterious effects of being raised by a physically handicapped parent. …
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Patterns of Task Persistence Among Handicapped and Nonhandicapped Preschoolers
To determine if handicapped and nonhandicapped children differ in their ability to persist on a task, and to determine if an interaction exists between sex and handicapped status on task persistence, 30 3- to 5-year-old handicapped and nonhandicapped preschool children were studied. As measures of …
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The Psycho-social Experiences of Children Living with Vertically Transmitted HIV/AIDS at Messina Hospital, South Africa
… was to explore the psycho-social experiences of children living with vertically transmitted HIV/AIDS in Messina Hospital, South Africa. The study utilised the qualitative approach, in particular the exploratory research design. The population of the study comprised both male and female children …
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Impact of Parental Interference on Children in High Conflict Divorce
… adults that experienced parental interference as children, few studies have examined the impact that this phenomenon has on children during and immediately following divorce proceedings. The present study utilized an original data set that was collected with fifty-five families (e.g., mother, …
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Methamphetamine-involved parenting and the risk of child maltreatment: Family experiences and the child welfare response
… study uses qualitative interviews of parents and children to identify maltreatment risks to which the children were exposed, and the parenting strengths that mitigated those risks. Quantitative measures of parent and child psychosocial functioning were used to understand the context of the risks …
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The relationship between body composition and bone in preadolescent children
… vs. fat mass) and bone mineral density (BMD) in children 8-9 years of age. A total of 103 Black and White participants (48 females and 55 males) between the ages of 8-9 years old and of all body composition levels, representative of a Midwestern county, were included in this study. All subjects …
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Divine childhood : a study of selected Homeric hymns in relation to ancient Greek societal practices
… relationships, maturation and the role of female children and women in society. In addition to the Homeric hymns a variety of other sources ranging from Homer to Apollodorus is drawn upon. The methodologies employed to analyse this diverse material are eclectic but a comparative approach …
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Assessing the anaerobic characteristics of children
… and profile of anaerobic characteristics of children, aged 6-12-years. It involved a series of four studies. The first of these studies examined the effects of varying resistances on the power outputs of children performing the Wingate anaerobic test (WAnT). The second study examined the …
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The Impact of Gender Roles on Girls Participation in Primary Education in Bunda District
… was to determine the impact of gender roles on female students’ participation in primary education in Mugeta and Kunzugu wards in Bunda district. The study was mainly qualitative and data were collected using focused group discussions, semi-structured interviews, documentary reviews, observation …
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İlköğretim öğrencilerinin tanrı imgesinin belirlenmesi ve farklı değişkenler açısından incelenmesi
… of this two-staged study was to understand how children image of God. In the first stage of this study children were asked ?What comes to mind when you hear the word `God??? Their answers to this question were organized according to frequency and classified into three separate groups. The …
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